{"id":57698,"date":"2023-04-16T06:55:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T06:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=57698"},"modified":"2023-04-16T07:11:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T07:11:32","slug":"a-personal-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-personal-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"A personal commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Knott  and his faithful canine<br \/>\nBuddy are going to make<br \/>\nIt known that  hunting on MOD Land<br \/>\nReally it does shake<br \/>\nOur very souls imagining<br \/>\nWild animals in flight<br \/>\nHunters giving chase to them<br \/>\nThe fear the awful fright<\/p>\n<p>Salisbury Plain a vast expanse<br \/>\nBen Wallace took away<br \/>\nThe right for  Andy to monitor<br \/>\nThe hunts and to display<br \/>\nCompassion and true empathy<br \/>\nTo fight the good fight,n he<br \/>\nPut his own health on the line<br \/>\nTo fight for decency<\/p>\n<p>It really is contemptible<br \/>\nThat hunts are allowed to ply<br \/>\nLand belonging to the mOD<br \/>\nWildness shocked just why<br \/>\nCan we be so dishonourable<br \/>\nAllowing wild souls to<br \/>\nBe tortured and be frightened<br \/>\nClearly a painful view<\/p>\n<p>So despite Andy\u2019s health issues<br \/>\nHe and his dog Buddy<br \/>\nAre going to make a stand<br \/>\nOn land<br \/>\nControlled by the MOD<br \/>\nMonitoring is essential<br \/>\nAllowing Hunts to be<br \/>\nThreatening the wildlife<br \/>\nIs wrong also to me <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s up really to all of us<br \/>\nTo support this man today<br \/>\nHe stands alone believing<br \/>\nReally it\u2019s his way<br \/>\nTo take on such exposure<br \/>\nTo offer up a plea<br \/>\nTo give his heart and spirit<br \/>\nAnd to fight  with empathy <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Knott and his faithful canine Buddy are going to make It known that hunting on MOD Land Really it does shake Our very souls imagining Wild animals in flight Hunters giving chase to them The fear the awful fright &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-personal-commitment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,107,316,114,189,101,318,272,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-dogs","category-forests-and-wild-places","category-fox-hunting","category-foxes","category-furs-and-the-fur-industry","category-gamekeeping","category-hares-and-red-grouse","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57700,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57698\/revisions\/57700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}